Moving Past Certain Things (i.e. EB and Old Blogs)

I was just at my super old blog to make a link here, and while I was there I looked at some of my old posts. Wow, it is so so so embarrassing. The pictures on the blog are so awful, as is my writing (lots of tee hees, LOLS, and spelling and grammatical errors). It’s so weird to look back on all of it, because at the time I was so proud of it. Not that I’m not still proud of it, it’s really awesome to be able to see how much I’ve grown in the 2 1/2 + years since I started blogging. I wonder if in 2 years I’ll look back at this blog and think of how ridiculous it is? My old blog is the kind of thing where it’s nice to revisit once every couple of months as a refresher of things and food past, but any more than that is a big no. I just have to move past it.

Another thing I’ve been thinking about moving past lately is Earth Balance.
Collectively as vegans I think we really need to stop being obsessed with EB (as it’s familiarly called) and move on to better, more sustainable methods of whipping up frostings and general fluffiness. I’m not quite sure what this entails yet, but I’m going to be experimenting with coconut oil, and I’ll report back with my findings (expect either a major breakthrough or a major failure) on it.
Putting the art deco back into penuche icing since 1990.

Just to show you that the once in a while, crocodile, mantra is okay, here is a gloriously Earth Balance-y photo from my archives, made for a friend’s potluck:

Cookies and Cream, and the Newman O’s were free, isn’t that smashing?

And now here is a gloriously EB free cake I made last week for my housemate:
Chocolate and Hazelnut deliciousness.

Happy Baking!

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4 Responses to “Moving Past Certain Things (i.e. EB and Old Blogs)”

First of all, I am hideously ashamed of things I wrote and was proud of, like, last WEEK, so don’t worry: you’re always going to think older stuff of yours is dumb. Also, weren’t you like twelve when you wrote that other blog? ;)

Also, I take full credit for de-EB-ing (de-EB-ifying?) you, though that credit is probably not all mine as you are a smart lady and had already figured out it was not the shiznit by the time I got my claws into you. At any rate, I am glad you were properly amazed by the whippy-uppy-ness (I am ashamed of this idiotic comment as I write it, for example!) of coconut oil + sugar this week!

All that said: I would eat about 10 of those Neuman-O cupcakes if they were here right now.

EB scares me. But I DO think that getting 50 lbs. of coconut oil might be a bit extreme… On another note, how come I don’t have any delicious chocolate hazelnut cake???? Hmm????

On yet another note, those Cookies n’ Cream cupcakes were AMAZING. The only thing that got me through the horrific car ride to Long Island with a certain relative in the car… Those, and the sugary cappucino.

Okay, okay. Turns out it’s a gallon of coconut oil. As for those cupcakes, you most certainly did not make them for Gregory’s potluck. You made peanut butter chocolate ones, and hazelnut jam ones (or something) for that. You just made those cookie ones for the family, and I took two in the car with me when we went to vist our great aunty.